Bakersfield Metro News

Officials with the California Republican Party say Senator John McCain will be in Bakersfield on Monday.

A woman mauled by a bear in a rural area of Southern California was recovering Wednesday as game wardens sought to trap and kill the animal.

California is playing its usual role in presidential politics - campaign ATM. John McCain will be back in the state Monday for fundraisers in Bakersfield and San Francisco.

The Lowrider Nationals, the premier urban car culture and lifestyle custom car show, live concert, and hop competition, rolls-in Sunday, August 3, 2008, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Kern County Fairgrounds in ...

A Bakersfield man charged with murdering his grandmother will not be going to prison.

Kern County authorities said a woman walking her dogs was mauled by a bear. The attack happened about 10 a.m. Tuesday in the sparsely populated hills east of Bakersfield and between Tehachapi and Lake Isabella ...

A cable repairman fixing overhead lines in a cherry picker truck got a lift he wasn't expecting.

UPDATE 6:32-- The Sunriver Police Department has identified the aircraft had one person on board- he's identified as Douglas John Sharratt of Bakersfield, California.

The state has slapped a Bakersfield skilled nursing facility with the stiffest fine possible after inadequate care killed a patient, it was announced Thursday.

A state appeals court has overturned the conviction and sentence of a Bakersfield man accused of raping his 10-year-old daughter.

A 25-year-old Bakersfield man was arrested early Friday on suspicion of robbery and attempted murder.

The company of a Bakersfield man killed in a place crash are grieving. Doug Sharratt was killed Wednesday in Oregon.

A man was killed Monday night when he was hit by a car while crossing a street in southwest Bakersfield.

The pilot of a small plane has died in a crash while landing at the Central Oregon resort town of Sunriver.

A garage fire caused more than $100,000 in damage to a northeast Bakersfield residence Tuesday afternoon.

State officials say a vineyard worker who collapsed during a heat wave last week is still in critical condition in a Bakersfield hospital.

Tuesday morning County Supervisors revisited a local law that prevents sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or park.

The family of Angela Horton is asking for the community's prayers after the 17-year-old Liberty High student accidentally drowned in a bath tub Monday morning.

Some said it was one of the most horrific crimes Kern County ever saw. Today marks the five year anniversary of the harper family murders.

Sheriffs detectives are investigating the suspicious death of a one month old newborn.